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I've had pretty good luck in Big Creek at Cabin Creek. Walk down from the airstrip to Big Creek. Better luck there than at Vines, but the river changes every year, so YMMV. Part of the problem with...

Not to derail this thread, but in my experience with both the Boise and Denver FSDOs:
a) Inspectors are quite fearful of putting their signature on something that will blow back later (this directly...

Feel free to argue this with the FSDO. The inspector here asserted that a shelf is not a stringer, doubler, reinforcement, etc. It's a shelf. My point is that you can argue angels and pinheads with...

This would apply to any ELT, 121.5 or 406 MHz.

The relevant rules appear to be a catchall provision of 47 USC § 1.80 Forfeiture proceedings.
(a) Persons against whom and violations for which a...

There are two reasons to ground the P lead shields at the mag and leave the switch end open:

- As Mike points out, the P lead must be connected ("grounded" is a somewhat misleading term here) to...

SB nailed it with more precision than my original post. I can add that the FSDO inspector was very interested in this point.

On the penalties:

47 CFR 87.471 limits ELT transmissions to...

In part, to be able to call you up and tell you to turn off your ELT in your hangar. Most ELT activations are inadvertent.

I was unaware of a fine for inadvertent activation. Can someone point us...

I wouldn't worry about putting a fuse to protect the snubber diode. Diodes will almost always (engineers almost never use absolutes) blow open, and there is so little mass that the fire risk is...

Unfortunately, no pics.

We installed my ACK ELT 04 on the battery shelf behind the baggage compartment (battery is now under the seat). The ELT must have at least one bolt extend through to the airframe itself, not just...

Seriously, you're leaving the site because you don't like what one person posts? Are you 13?

FlyQ kept my pilot data and one airplane, which is all I fly anyway. I think the other plane entries were lost in a prior "upgrade".

FlyQ did lose user waypoints and there is no support for them....

There are a couple of paths to raise the gross weight. There is an older STC (Borer?) that raises the gross weight with a change to the cabane strut. I don't recall if there are other requirements....

Here's an L21 restoration, sort of of a mix of keeping it classic but adding mods for safety and comfort: http://www.taildragon.com/Taildragon/L21-B.html

There is at least one jig in Idaho...

Update from Texas Skyways:
"Yes, we do have the ethanol fuel STC. It is only approved for the O-470-U/TS engine when installed in a Cessna 180 or 182, up thru the 182 R. The only modification...

We used .040 for the interior sidewalls - holding up fine after 3 years. Mostly flat - not nearly as much forming as Mike does.

Johnson Creek:
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This makes no sense. Why mandate E15 if people already don't want E10? (I assume you mean mandate since E15 has been allowed since mid last year). How about ending the mandates altogether and...

The quote from this article is misleading in several respects, which I suppose is not surprising, since the original speaker is an ethanol lobbyist.

Subsidies are subsidies, whether direct or...

Two special interests fighting over scraps from Big Gov't. Rather than resist this particular bill, I suggest working on reducing tax rates and tax breaks across the board, regardless of industry. ...

So, it's the evil oil companies and the AAA to blame. Not Congress selectively handing out supports and breaks to its favored constituents (including ADM and the aforementioned oil companies). Why...

The lengthy posts above pretty well cover it, but here is my short answer. I no longer teach, but I used to do tailwheel transitions and most of the "senior" pilot checkouts (the FBO was in a...

It's not the RINs, its the mandate for a minimum amount of ethanol to be used that's the problem. The public doesn't particularly want to buy it. If ethanol were a price and function equivalent to...

Thought I'd kick this dead horse again:

Biofuel Boondoggle

"Corn-based ethanol starves the world’s poor and increases greenhouse gas emissions, yet the US is intent on propping it up with...